Buying land story - Part3

I’ve broken this story up into a few parts as it’s a bit loooong. You can read part1 here and part2 here

Two days later I receive a call from the real estate agency, but a different agent this time.  She tells me that they had spoken with the vendor and they were willing to drop a few thousand of the price, I tell her I’ll have to think about it and I end the call. So without me saying or doing anything they have supposedly gone off their own back and managed to get a few thousand off for me, once again this sounded suss. 

Without delving into too much detail, we knew who the vendor was and how we could contact them. Although it’s not the proper way to go about things we decided that we should just contact them and ask ourselves if they really were a fixed price. If they were then I could move on. After a few phone calls back and forth, a few days pass by and I get an answer, yes they will review ANY offer put forward. They knew nothing about a fixed price. So the agent was straight out lying the whole time. 

A few more days pass by when I receive another call from the agent, ‘what would you like to do?’ she asks me. I explain that I’ve been told that I can make an offer and that’s what I would like to do, I can come down that day during my lunch break. She’s says that’s fine and off I go. I get their offices and the agent assists me with all the paper work, I fill in my offer and leave. 

The next day I get a phone call, and whadoyaknow the vendor has accepted the offer. 

Wow, what a run around. Basically what I learnt from this is you really can never trust anyone who’s trying to sell you something. All I wanted was to make an offer on a block of land, I would have been fine if they didn’t accept it. But instead I was lied to, made to feel like I didn’t know what I was doing, they were trying to pull the wool over my eyes because I was a first home buyer, they assumed I knew nothing, assumed I would have just accepted what he had told me and signed there on the dotted line. I’m very thankful to my parents who stood by me and helped me uncover the lies, and in the end get the block of land I wanted at the price I wanted to pay. 

Hopefully that didn’t all sound too doom and gloom. I can only laugh about it all now, and this experience hasn’t discouraged me but only made me stronger. Once of those great life lessons I guess!